A blog by paleoartist Clara Takahashi
Here you will find facts about obscure dinosaurs, obscure facts about well-known dinosaurs, and other material covering such topics as evolution, taxonomy, geology, and pop culture!
“Dino Days” is a temporary exhibit of mechatronic dinosaurs in the courtyards of the Cal Academy of Sciences that I’d been putting off going to for quite awhile, even though it’s right in my backyard in SF. It’s clearly for...
I was recently contacted by someone from Smithsonian Books to see if I’d be interested in doing a review of a book that’s coming out soon, Dinosaurus by Rhys Charles. I responded that I was happy to, but my review...
The other thing besides birding that I always make sure to do when I travel is to hit up the local natural history museum. In Paris, that’s the Galerie de Paléontologie et d’Anatomie Comparée located on the eastern end of...
I recently went to France for the first time. You know the drill–here are the birds!
As a final installment in my comprehensive prehistoric world maps, I present the world of the end-Permian, right before the most terrible extinction the world has ever seen. The configuration of continents during the Permian period was much the same...
